A graduate of Colgate University,
the University of Rochester School of Medicine (1956), and Johns Hopkins University,
Dr. Daniel E. Fountain served with his wife Miriam as a medical missionary in the
Democratic Republic of Congo (formerly Zaire) from 1961-1996 with the American Baptist Board of International Ministries.
During that time, he was the director of health services of the Baptist Church
of Western Congo and the director of Vanga Evangelical Hospital.
Through their efforts and those of the Baptist Community of Western Congo, the
Vanga Hospital grew into a 400 bed teaching hospital with a nurses training
school, family medicine residency, a rural health zone of 50 health centers
serving a quarter of a million people, a church-based community health program
reaching over 300 villages, and a whole-person care ministry to persons with
HIV.
Dr. Fountain is the founder and
former director of several health programs in Africa, including a health care
training institute and a rural health care network. In 1984, he and Rev. Felicity Matala
established an integrated medical-pastoral care ministry in the Vanga Hospital
for the healing of the whole person which he directed until his return to
the US.
A recognized authority on the treatment of persons with AIDS, Dr.
Fountain has been the recipient of numerous awards for community health service,
including being given CMDA's "Servant of Christ" Award at its 2006
National Conference. Early in his career he was designated one of the "Ten
Outstanding Young Men of the Year" by the U.S. Junior Chamber of Commerce
in 1964. In 1996 Map International granted him its "Outstanding Medical
Missionary Award" for his service in the Congo, and more recently he was
honored by CMDA with its 2001 "Missionary of the Year Award."
Dan
has served as an Associate of MAP International, as a
founding board member of Project MedSend, and from
1996-2001 as a Consultant to Southwestern Medical Clinic in Michigan.
He currently serves on the
faculty of the Christian Medical & Dental Association’s Continuing Medical
Education Program and as an Assistant Professor at King College
and Director of
their Global Health Care Center masters degree program.
He is also
the author of numerous books in English and French on community health and
primary health care, including God, Medicine and Miracles; Primary
Diagnosis and Treatment; Let’s Build Our Lives; and Health, the
Bible and the Church. Dr. Fountain teaches internationally about the
importance of caring for the whole person. A gardener and a musician, he makes
his home in Florida with his wife, Miriam. The couple has three grown children
and several grandchildren.
